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Motion To Rejoin
by Brightblack Morning Light
The second album on Matador Records for the band based in New Mexico.
| LABEL: |
Matador |
| RELEASE DATE: |
23 September 2008 |
| DISCS: |
1 disc |
| GENRE(S): |
Rock, Indie |
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83
Pitchfork
The farther they wander, the more magnetic they become.
83
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Lazy saxophone exhalations, lightly swung beats, and female R&B backups answer for the southerly side of Motion To Rejoin's southwestern roots, while that inescapable feeling of finding a way out of a listless hangover is universal.
80
Lost At Sea
With hooked beaks and mighty talons, Brightblack Morning Light rip and gut the carcass of psychedelic rock, leaving it exposed and decomposing on the side of the road.
80
Uncut
It is not hard to make fun of this band, even if you’re broadly sympathetic to their beliefs. But the atmosphere they create in their music is so heady, so insidious, so rooted in their environment and their Utopian ideals, that the whole package becomes compelling.
80
Q Magazine
Motion To Join makes the druggiest meanderings of the similar "Spiritulized" sound full of pep. [Dec 2008, p. 126]
80
The Wire
There's not much variety over these nine tracks, but to hell with variety when you sound this good. [Dec 2008, p.56]
76
cokemachineglow
Apart from these few times when the band touches on musical history, lyrically there’s still the same ridiculous preoccupations: rugged, Midwestern imagery; new age-y spirituality; rather obvious weather-related metaphors.
75
Prefix Magazine
The songs toward the latter half of the nine-song, 50-minute album begin to blur, but overall the album introduces a good, anachronistic headspace to enter into.
70
Blender
The result is severely mellow, but too sensuous--the basslines thick with libidinal tug, the vocals steeped in contented, coital afterglow--to ever get boring.
70
Tiny Mix Tapes
Brightblack Morning Light retain a signature, singular, salient sound and still refuse to nudge their songs forward at anything but a crawling pace.
70
musicOMH.com
Overall, though, the music is worth wading through everything else for.
70
Drowned In Sound
Yes, the style and the evocative mood that positively drips from this record are perhaps its most obvious elements but the spirit that underlies these sweltering ballads is massive.
60
Mojo
Its facinating music nevertheless and extremely psychedelic, with gospelly backing singers, flutes and guitars reaching the listener through a reverb-heavy haze. [Dec 2008, p.104]
60
Under The Radar
I get the feeling if I was just chilling out, their Spiritualized-on-barbiturates grroves might be alright. [Fall 2008, p.86]
60
All Music Guide
Brightblack Morning Light's intentions and actions are indeed admirable--they're committed advocates of much more than just drug legalization--but Motion to Rejoin struggles mightily to articulate a focus aside from tranquility.
60
Dusted Magazine
At other times the songs--while still enjoyable in a nebulous “go to the light” kind-of-way--simply lose all pretense to distinction, bleeding together in a tonal wash of echoed vocals, tremolo guitar and gooey organ.
60
Rolling Stone
At 50 minutes, Motion to Rejoin's jams drift off into the ether, but that's their whole charm: Surrender to the flow, and you'll never know where the time went.
60
Spin
Fender Rhodes–heavy groove of 2006's self-titled breakthrough gives way to more discernible melodies and socially conscious lyrics (see "Oppressions Each"), buoyed by soulful horns and backup vocals.
30
Magnet
Brightblack Morning Light has always been a druggie band; this time, however, the drug of choice is Dramamine.
20
Hot Press
New mexican drone rock duds. Tune free zone.
The average user rating for this album is 8.7 (out of 10) based on 7 User Votes
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